This course studies the philosophical aspects of the social sciences as a source of learning for social sciences (ontology, epistemology and axiology of the social sciences); philosophical aspects of education as the pedagogical foundations of social studies (essentialism, perennialism, pragmatism, and reconstructionism); social studies philosophical thoughts (Hegel, Karl Marx, Frankfurd School, Hokkaimer and Hubermas, Rene De Cartes, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, and Husserl) as education to build human identity; social studies philosophical thoughts (Paulo Freire, Antony Giddens, postmodernism) as critical education; the relationship between social studies education philosophy with the critical education paradigm and learning theories; as well as analyzing the idea of intellectual identity (Edward Said).